[TCUG] Re: Safety Camera Maintenance
- From: "David Parkyns" <dparkyns@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tcug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:54:44 +0100
A number of years ago we suffered from the same problem, but wrote a
maintenance spec that would enable others to provide first line
maintainenance (which included getting trained from the incumbant and
ensuring that 2nd line maintenance was only carried out by the original
supplier of the equipment). There was some resistance from the Police to
this, as they were concerned about yet more people having keys to camera
housings and any potential impact to home office approvals/calibration
certificates etc. All staff had to be Police checked before keys would be
issued.
Under competitive tender, a 3rd party firm won the contract.
The upside was, as you state - it reduced the contract costs and opened up
the competition
The downside was, in the first year, the contract needed a lot of our time
overseeing it and it took a while for the contractor to get up to speed.
Whether over the length of the contract the contract costs and local
authority staff time was more economical than staying with the monopoly, I
never calculated.
I am no longer at that local authority so do not know what the current
situation is. For info it was Siemens that won the contract.
Dave Parkyns
-----Original Message-----
From: tcug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tcug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Grahame Bath
Sent: 26 October 2004 09:00
To: tcug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [TCUG] Safety Camera Maintenance
Good morning all
Please can anyone provide details of the contractors they use to maintain
their safety cameras?
We appear to be suffering from a monopoly situation at present which
certainly does not help our
finances and introducing competition is definitely the way to go.
I don't need contractual arrangements, just names and addresses if
possible.
Many thanks
Regards
Grahame Bath
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Grahame Bath
Senior Engineer, Traffic Systems
Surrey County Council
020 8541 7346 (Tel) 020 8541 7366 (Fax)
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